Tag Archives: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Metal Gear Solid 5 servers on PS3 and Xbox 360 are being taken offline. As announced earlier today through the official Konami website (opens in new tab), the servers for Metal Gear Solid 5 on PS3 and Xbox 360 will be shut down over the course of a few months. …

There are over forty different animals you can capture in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab), which you can send back to your Animal Conservation Platform at Mother Base once you’ve completed at least three out of Missions 07, 08, 09 and 10. Some of …

Downloads are going live for Metal Gear Online, the traditional multiplayer component of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) set to go live Tuesday (except on PC (opens in new tab)). Japanese gamers are already downloading the add-on files which weigh in at a relatively …

Warning: I’m spoiling everything up in here. You’ve been warned. Can a game be your favorite and least favorite at the exact same time? Because that’s the sort of mental gymnastics I’ve been dealing with since I rolled credits (full credits, mind) for the third time in Metal Gear Solid …

Solid Snake was always supposed to be the hero of the Metal Gear franchise. He was inspired by Snake Plissken from Escape From New York. His image on the cover of the NES version of Metal Gear is almost identical to Kyle Reese in The Terminator (opens in new tab). …

It’s a good thing that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is still a lot of fun offline, because its first few days have been plagued with slow servers and extended downtime. Now Konami says on its official status page (opens in new tab) that …

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is the most connected Metal Gear ever made, so you may not be surprised that it’s encountered some of the standard launch day difficulties. Unexpected “server connection issues” have led Konami to deactivate or pare down some of the …

T he Codec is the titanium-reinforced crutch of a series forever threatening to collapse under its mass of expository, acronym-laden dialogue. A direct line to Snake, Raiden, Big Boss and the player’s ears, the Codec offers a convenient means of dumping the vast swathes of information that never seem to …

Last month we spotted the ‘in game purchases optional’ line on the Metal Gear Solid 5 preorder page (opens in new tab). Konami has since confirmed that microtransactions will be present in the game and the focus is very much on the word optional. “There are some microtransactions involved in …

Here’s the first question out of the way: Hideo Kojima doesn’t know if Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be released together with The Phantom Pain–so the series’ creator told CVG in a recent interview. With that in mind, he at least made the case for the strange division …